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2017 Stuff

Post by DOUGHBOYS » Sun Feb 18, 2018 5:28 pm

Let's do some Stuff pertaining to the 2017 baseball season....

Aaron Judge was the first player in MLB history with a 50-100-200
This would be the triple crown of non-balls in play.
50 homers...100 BB's...200 strike outs

Judge hit 24 doubles.
In the past that would portend to a player not having power (remember that?)
Another Yankee had a large home run total and measly doubles.
Roger Maris had 61 home runs and reversed those digits for just 16 doubles.
Before thinking that Yankee Stadium (either of them) are hard on doubles, Don Mattingly had 53 in 1986.

Whit Merrifield led the American League with 34 stolen bases.
If that doesn't sound like much for a leader, you're right.
The last A.L. Leader with fewer stolen bases was Luis Aparicio in 1962.

Travis Shaw stole 10 bases last year.
You're probably thinking that Shaw picked his spots well and sneakily stole second base 10 times.
Nope.
EIGHT of Shaw's 10 thefts were of THIRD BASE.

The top 20 hitters who had the most strike outs, all had at least 20 home runs.
No year said 'Swing hard in case you hit something' like 2017.
Justin Turner 'finished' 300th in striking out with just 56 k's.
The last player 'of the group' with at least 20 home runs.

Charlie Blackmon had an extraordinary year.
He finished in the top 10 of NL hitters in Singles, Doubles, Triples, and Home Runs.
For fantasy purposes, he was also top ten in the NL in four of five roto categories.
His 14 stolen bases placed 24th.
Unforgivable.

Joey Votto also finished top four of five roto categories in the NL (Arenado too)
Votto led baseball in walks (134) and intentional walks (20).
We wouldn't have it any other way, would we?
Have we come to the point yet, where we save pitches on arms, and intentionally walk Votto with two outs and nobody on first base every time the circumstance presents itself?
Baseball is moving that way.

From 1980-2005, there were 100 20-game winners.
In the 12 seasons since, just 24.
An average of two 20-game winners.
In 2017, there were zero 20-game winners.
There were zero 19- game winners.
The first year, without a labor strike, that has ever happened.

Rick Porcello led baseball in Wins in 2016.
In 2017, he led baseball in losses.
Chris Archer has not won 20 games in 2016 and 2017 inclusive.
He has lost 31 games.
For fantasy drafters, that don't mean much.
Robbie Ray was 8-15 in 2016.
15-5 last year.

Matt Moore allowed more runs than any other National League pitcher (116) in 2017.
He moves from the best pitchers park in the league to one of the worst pitching parks in the American League...
FORE!

Only four batters on now opposing AL Central teams have hit a home run vs. Jake Odorizzi
Encarnacion-2
Merrifield-2
Gordon-1
Av Garcia- 1

Corey Dickerson set a career high of 27 home runs last year.....and Hillary got more votes than Donald
Neither did a lot of good for them, did it....

Is there a team's bullpen that will need prayers more than the Angels this coming season?
Last year, Parker Bridwell led them in Quality Starts.
Parker Bridwell!
This year, Mike Scioscia has announced a six man rotation
Here are the Starters with last years innings...

Shohei Ohtani- 25 innings
Garrett Richards- 27 innings
JC Ramirez- 147 innings
Matt Shoemaker- 77 innings
Tyler Skaggs- 85 innings
Parker Bridwell- 121 innings

The devil is in the stats.
The Angels will need a lot of bullpen arms.
One of those bullpen arms is Jim Johnson.
Warm up the shuttle between Salt Lake City and Anaheim.
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Re: 2017 Stuff

Post by Edwards Kings » Mon Feb 19, 2018 7:29 am

DOUGHBOYS wrote:Let's do some Stuff pertaining to the 2017 baseball season....

Aaron Judge was the first player in MLB history with a 50-100-200
This would be the triple crown of non-balls in play.
50 homers...100 BB's...200 strike outs

Judge hit 24 doubles.
In the past that would portend to a player not having power (remember that?)
I cannot get my head around that 50-100-200. Amazing, scary and confusing all in one. Recency bias must have a field day with this one.
DOUGHBOYS wrote:Travis Shaw stole 10 bases last year.
You're probably thinking that Shaw picked his spots well and sneakily stole second base 10 times.
Nope.
EIGHT of Shaw's 10 thefts were of THIRD BASE.
Unless you are Benny "The Rocket" Rodriguez, isn't stealing third that many times the very definition of "sneaky"?
DOUGHBOYS wrote:The top 20 hitters who had the most strike outs, all had at least 20 home runs.
No year said 'Swing hard in case you hit something' like 2017.
Justin Turner 'finished' 300th in striking out with just 56 k's.
The last player 'of the group' with at least 20 home runs.
So you are saying Justin Turner has a "good eye"?
DOUGHBOYS wrote:Charlie Blackmon had an extraordinary year.
He finished in the top 10 of NL hitters in Singles, Doubles, Triples, and Home Runs.
For fantasy purposes, he was also top ten in the NL in four of five roto categories.
His 14 stolen bases placed 24th.
Unforgivable.
Sushssssss? Blackmon is a sleeper! I do not know when, but yes one lucky sole is going to have him, all those stats and 25+ stolen bases one of these years. Mike Trout who?
DOUGHBOYS wrote:Joey Votto also finished top four of five roto categories in the NL (Arenado too)
Votto led baseball in walks (134) and intentional walks (20).
We wouldn't have it any other way, would we?
Have we come to the point yet, where we save pitches on arms, and intentionally walk Votto with two outs and nobody on first base every time the circumstance presents itself?
Baseball is moving that way.
Shouldn't teams have the option to say "No thanks...pitch to me?" unless there are men on second and third with less than two out? And balls intentionally thrown way out of the strike zone is cause for pitcher ejection. That will save arms.

DOUGHBOYS wrote:Matt Moore allowed more runs than any other National League pitcher (116) in 2017.
He moves from the best pitchers park in the league to one of the worst pitching parks in the American League...
FORE!
So Texas knew this and said..."Yup...he is our man!" Amazing.
DOUGHBOYS wrote:Corey Dickerson set a career high of 27 home runs last year.....and Hillary got more votes than Donald
Neither did a lot of good for them, did it....
Not the same. Hillary lost because she could only hit what she threw...curveballs. And it is "THE" Donald to you. Oh well...I voted for the pothead anyway.

What kind of club house cancer must Dickerson be? Knowing they tried to trade him (and his whopping $6M salary) and just decide to cut him?
DOUGHBOYS wrote:Is there a team's bullpen that will need prayers more than the Angels this coming season?
Last year, Parker Bridwell led them in Quality Starts.
Parker Bridwell!
This year, Mike Scioscia has announced a six man rotation
Here are the Starters with last years innings...

Shohei Ohtani- 25 innings
Garrett Richards- 27 innings
JC Ramirez- 147 innings
Matt Shoemaker- 77 innings
Tyler Skaggs- 85 innings
Parker Bridwell- 121 innings
Angels management thought they would automatically get a playoff birth just by signing Ohtani...boy were they pissed when they read the fine print!
Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn't lend itself to histrionics. You 'take in' a baseball game, something odd to say about a football or basketball game, with the clock running and the bodies flying.
Charles Krauthammer

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Re: 2017 Stuff

Post by DOUGHBOYS » Mon Feb 19, 2018 10:53 am

Last year, I was doing my job as a softball supervisor.
I was watching a slow pitch game when a an on deck hitter told the batter "Good eye" when taking a pitch for a ball.
I let him have it from behind the screen.
"Good eye??"
"Good eye!?"
"In slow pitch?"
That is like watching Daytona, then having a passenger in your car say, "Nice pass", when passing another vehicle on a two-lane, 35 mile per hour road."

Charley Blackmon's a sleeper?
I didn't know.
Nobody ever tells me these things.
Now, it looks like he may be batting in front of Arenado. Better!
And you're right!
He is a sleeper.
Trea Turner is still being chosen ahead of him :D

Is it possible to miss Ricky Nolasco?
The Angels will find out this year.

If our son's or grandson's go to a tryout to throw for coaches or scouts...
It's called a tryout.
When Tim Lincecum throws for coaches or scouts...
It's called a 'showcase'
Whoever said, "It is what it is"... never had an agent.

With each passing round of a draft, I think about Michael Conforto.
This round, no, too soon.
This one? No, he's not playing till probably June.
This one? No, it's a shoulder.
This one? No, he's a Met.
This one?
And on it goes.
At some point, he is taken and the thoughts go away...
That is, until the next draft. Then it starts all over, but even lower in the draft...

Ken Giles and Yasmani Grandal were punished in early drafts.
Unusable by their teams in the playoffs, drafters thought there may be a carry over to 2018.
Giles has been forgiven by drafters.
Grandal, not so much.

Strategies on Closers in early drafts is like pissing in a hurricane.
We have no idea what is going to be right.
Heck, we don't even know who the 'real' Closer is on 10-12 teams.
Still, we have our different methods...
The get two 'fer sure' Closers early in a draft...
The get one 'fer sure' Closer early, then use a scattergun approach later...
The 'I don't wanna use my early picks on no Closer' approach...
One drafter went beyond all that and drafted no relievers at all.
That is not punting a category, that is sticking your middle finger at it.
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Re: 2017 Stuff

Post by Yah Mule » Mon Feb 19, 2018 3:30 pm

DOUGHBOYS wrote: Aaron Judge was the first player in MLB history with a 50-100-200
This would be the triple crown of non-balls in play.
50 homers...100 BB's...200 strike outs.
There's another Three True Outcome kid in Texas who could easily be the second.

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Re: 2017 Stuff

Post by DOUGHBOYS » Mon Feb 19, 2018 3:55 pm

Gallo is like the sex life of a couple that's been married for awhile.
Gloom and doom during the week with striking out the norm.
Then BAM!
Then back to work, striking out for a week...
Then BAM! again....

Dave Kingman, left handed....
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Re: 2017 Stuff

Post by Yah Mule » Mon Feb 19, 2018 4:26 pm

I saw Sky King hit one out @ Dodger Stadium (not the Lasorda tirade game) that was the most towering home run I've ever seen. I swear that ball was nearly as high as we were in the upper deck when it cleared the fence in dead center.

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